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“If it can be shown that the artists here not only knew it was likely that the bot would make illegal purchases, but that they hoped it would, that would indicate that they acted ‘knowingly’ or at least ‘recklessly,’” Mary Anne Franks, a law professor at the University of Miami,...

It’s basically a given that one day we shall all cede our fates to robots, those mechanical masterminds of our own creation, when they inevitably surpass us in both strength and smarts, and we are either overthrown or pampered into a state of disgusting inactivity, confined to chairs like in...